With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

World's largest working waterwheel has been around for over 150 years.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The world's oldest model village.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

Music boxes like you've never imagined.

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

All that remains of the medieval palace of the famous "Black Prince."